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Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

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UNITED s'iiiijpsy PATENT OFFICE.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented Jalh 1S, 1921 Applicationfiled March 29, 1920. Serial No. 369,702.

To all lwhom t may concern; t Be it known/that l, THOMAs A; Y. l-loDG-soN, a citizen vof the United States, and a resident of Palmerton, inthe `county of Carbon and State of Pennsylvania, have in-` vented a newandlmproved Graine Apparatiis, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a gaine apparatus with whichmay be played many interesting games, several different types of piecesbeing employed, each type having indicated thereon the possibledirection or directions of movement of the type of piece. Another objectof the invention is to provide a game board having indicated thereon thedirections of movementpf the different types of pieces, the indicationson the game board corresponding with the indications on thedif'ferenttypes of p ieces. `Still other objects of the invention are disclosed inthe following description in which the preferred form of my invention isdescribed. Similar reference characters refer to similarparts in all thefigures in which-- Figiire 1 isa plan view showing the gaine board,forming a part of my gaine apparatus;and- Figs. 2 to 9 are views ofdifferent pieces employed in playing the gaine.

On referringto the drawings it will be seen that the board fil-shownlin" Fig. lof the drawings has positions o r fields spaced apart, thesefields B h aving pointers b1 pointing forwardly, pointers b2 pointingrearwardly, pointers b3 pointing to the right, pointers b4 pointingto'the left and pointers h5 and b pointing diagonally. The board isprovided preferably with 48 positions or fields Bas shown. The gamepieces shown in Figs. 2 to 9 which are employed in playing the game areprovided with arrowscorresponding with thepointers Zit to bl" which havebeen referred to. ln playing the game which l will first describe thefollowing game pieces are employed: v2 game pieces C, 2 gaine pieces D,2game pieces E and 2 game pieces F. l The game pieces C have arrowspointing) in a forwarddirection, the game pieces have arrows pointingina forward and in arearward direction,`the game pieces E have arrowspointing forwardly, rearwardly, to the ri ht and to the left, andthegaine pieces n have arrows b2, basis, b5

pointing forwardly, rearwardly, Ito the right, to the left 'andobliq'iiely. It will be seen that'the arrows on thefgame pieces Ccorrespond with the pointers 3 on'the positions or fields B; that thearrows on the game pieces D correspond with the `:nointers b3 and bi* onthe positions or fields 5 that the arrows on the'gainepieces Ecorrespond with the pointers b1, b2, Z" and b* on the positions orfieldsB, and' that the `arrows 'en the gaine pieces F correspond withthe p ointers b1, '62, 53, o4, b5 and b on the positions or fields i iThe gaine which l will first describe is vplayed from all' foiir sidesof the game board 'and as has been stated preferably with two of each ofthe types of game pieces which I have described, the two-game pieces Cbeing disposed on the positions or fields B1 and `B21 with `arrows`pointing to the right, the two gaine pieces D being disposed on thepositions or fields Ba andB4 with arrows pointing to the right and toitheleft and inthe directionsfof'the'pointers b3 and b4` on thepositions or fields B, the two gaine pieces E being disposed on thepositions or fieldsB5 and B with arrows pointing `in the same directionsas the pointers b1, b2, b3

and 'b4 on the positions oifields B, and the two game pieces F aredisposed on the positions or fields B7 Vand B8 with their` arrowspointing in the' directions of the pointers b1, t and b onl thepositions or fields B. `f

There may be two, three or four players in 'a competitive game. `Whenfour :iersons `are playing the game, each 'person will take two of onetypeof game pieces. When two persons are playing the game, one personmay take the game pieces C and E or if `desired the gamepieces C and For should it be desired one player may 'take the game pieces C,'D and i,the other player taking the remaining pieces. l vWhen three persons`play the gaine one 'person may take the game pieces C and D or C and Eor if desired the game pieces D and E the other players taking theremaining game pieces. A1 person playing two or morel types `of `gamepieces should play these` pieces as partners.

While each gainepiece is limited as to inovementiwith reference to thearrows with which they are indicated and while the movement of each gameiece is limited to one position `or `field `in `e direction. of its tovfpiec'e to one of the positions or fields I3 arrow, it is possible forany game piece to Y jump over and capture a game piece of an opponentplayer provided that the position or field be in the direction of Vitsarrow and beyond the opponents game piece which is to be jumped isunoccupied. It should be understood that any `game piece may jump andcapture an' opponents game piece of any other type provided, of course,the game piece is moved in the direction of its arrow. Whenthe playerhaving one of the game pieces CV succeeds in moving the said game at therightof the board the said player may substitute for the said'game pieceC a gam piece D with the arrows pointing in the direction of thepointers. b4 and b3 so that the said game-piece will be Yable to move tothe right and to thevleft of the board one space at a time. When aplayer with one of the game piecesk D succeeds in moving the saidgamewpiece to one of the positions or fields B at the left of the board,the said player is -permitted to substitute for the said piece D one otthe game pieces E which has arrows pointing tothe. four sides of theboard and therefore is permitted to move in the directions of thepointers 61,62, b3 and b1 on the positions or fields B. When a playerhaving one ofthegame pieces E succeeds in movingl the said game ypiece Eacross the board from the side at which 1t was disposed when play wascommenced the player having the Y. said game piece Eis permitted tosubstitute for it one of the game pieces F which as has beenV stated ispermitted to move forwardly, to the rear, tothe right, to the left andob` liquely in: accordance with the several point` ers on each of thepositions or fields B. Y The playing. ofthe game is continued untilonerof the persons has the only game pieeeswhicharemain on the board orto a vtimein the playing of the game when the game may be declared to bea draw.

'Another game may be played with my Vgameapparatus which I will nowdescribe. In playing: this second game, two game pieces Gr are employed,these two game pieces Gn being disposed on the positions or fields B9'and B1", Vtwo game pieces H are employed, these' two game pieces H beinVdisposed on the positions or fields B11 and B12, two game pieces I areemployed, the said two game'pieces I being disposed on 'the positionsor'fields B7 and B13, and two game pieces'K are employed, the two gamepieces Kbeing disposed on the positions or fields B8 andl B14. Inplaying this game, the players having the game pieces G and IIi" play aspartners and the players having the game p-iecesfI and K playaspartners.

" The arrows-'on the game pieces G, H, I

'and and' whichfcorrespond withy `the pointers 61,62, b3, 64,65 and beon the positions or',l fields B1v ndcatethe possible direc- Ywith thegame pieces tions of movement of' the game pieces. It will be seen thatwhile the game pieces G and I-I may move forwardly, rearwardly, to theright and to the left, this is not possible I and K, as the game piecesI and K only move obliquely. All the game pieces in playing this secondgame move two spaces at a time where it is a straight move or where thepiece jumps a game piece of an opponent with, ot course, the exceptionthat it is possible for a gaine piece to jump more than one game pieceof an opponent provided that after jumping the first game piece the gamepiece which has been moved is in a position to jump a second game pieceof an opponent. 'lhe same is true with reference to jumping a third gamepiece.

Still another game may he played with my game apparatus. In this thirdgame, two each of the game pieces G, Ii, I and l( are used, each of thelgame pieces moving three positions or fields B at each more. The movesare somewhat similar to the moves of the Knight piece in chess, that is,each game .piece either moves one position or field in one direction andtwo in another or two in the first direction and one in another, forinstance, the game pieces Gr and II will more either one or twopositions or fields in the directions of one of their arrows and if theymove only one position or field in the said direction then twolaterally, while if they move two positions in the direction of theirarrow then one laterally. The game pieces I and I( will move one or twopositions obliquely in the direction of one of their arrows or obliquelyand then one position or field at right angles with the first part ofthe movement of the play. In playing this third game I prefer to disposethe two game pieces I on the position-s or fields B1 and B2, the twogame pieces K I prefer to dispose on the positions or fields B15 andB16; I prefer to dispose the two game pieces G on the positions orfields Bland B*3 and I. prefer to dispose the two game pieces I-I on thepositions or fields B14v and B1?.

The lines 67 on the positions or fields B assist in determining thepossible direction of movement of the game pieces on the game board.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In a game apparatus a game board havingpositions indicated thereon with pointers indicating several directionsof movement for game pieces on the game board and several types of gamepieces each with possible movement of the other types of game pieces.

2. In a game apparatus a game board having ositions indicated thereonand four types o game pieces one type of game pieces havinGr arrowsindicating a possible movement 1n a forward direction, a second type ofgame pieces having arrows indicating a possible movement in a forwardand rearward direction, a third type of game pieces with arrowsindicating a possible movement forward, back, to the right and to theleft, and a fourth type of game pieces with arrows indicating a possiblemovement forward, back, to the right, to the left and obliquelyforwardly and baekwardly.

3. In a game apparatus a game board having positions indicated thereonwith pointers showing possible movements of game pieces thereon forward,backward, to the right, to the left and obliquely, and four types ofgame pieces, one type having arrows indicating a possible movement in aforward direction, a second type of gaine pieces having arrowsindicating a possibie movement in a forward and rearward direction, athird type of game pieces with arrows indicating a possible movementforward, back, to` the right and to the left, and a fourth type of gamepieces with arrows indicating a possible movement forward, back, to theright, to the left and obliqnely forwardly and backwardly.

t. In a game apparat-ns, a game board having positions indicated thereonwith pointers showing possible movements p of game pieces thereon,forward, backward, to the right, to the left and obliquely, a type ofgame pieces having arrows indicating a possible movement forward,backward, to

the right and to the left, and a second typel of game pieces havingarrows indicating a possible movement obliquely, forwardly andbackwardly.

5. In a gaine apparatus, a game board having positions indicated thereonwith pointers showing possible movements of game pieces on the gameboard, forward, backward, to the right, to the left and obliquely,several types of game pieces each with possible directions of movementindicated thereon and which correspond with some pointers ind'catingdirections of movement on the game board and different from thedirections of movement indicated on the other game pieces.

6. In a game apparatus, a game board having positions indicated thereonwith pointers showing possible movements of game pieces on the gameboard, forward, backward, to the right, to the left and obliquely, andseveral types of game pieces each with arrows, the arrows on the gamepieces corresponding with the pointers on the game board, the arrows oneach game piece being different from the arrows on other' types of Gamepieces.

rHMAs A. Y. noneson.

